Attending King’s College’s first Bushcare session for 2025! Ably led by legend Jack!

Caught up with Brian and Sandy, Mum and Dad's great friends on mum's anniversary.

Spotted some cute street cats on my trip to Japan. Aren’t they so cute 🥺 However, domestic cats are not native Japan and came from countries such as China and India. Therefore, they can be a threat to endangered species and other animals in the environment such as birdies 🥰🦃 Cats are so cute, don’t you think? I love cats 🥰 Cats deserve to live.

i recently visited japan and while i was over there i saw monkeys and deer. they were super cute. we should help maintain biodiversity so creatures like these monkeys and deer can continue to live in a supporting and healthy environment.

We are so lucky in Brisbane to have urban bush, parks and wildlife. Tōkyō is an amazing city, the largest in the world, with an energy to match. But I saw only two species of bird in 3 days, a few crows being one of them. Very few trees as well which doesn’t help, tree canopy at only around 7% and declining. Bird numbers are also declining https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/environment/20241015-216633/ We should do all we can to keep and improve what we have in Brisbane. They are an asset the world will love come 2032.

The Kyoto/Osaka region has over 19 million residents, but the streets are much clearer of rubbish compared with Tokyo, despite there still not many rubbish bins. Less tourists or different attitude of the locals??

In Tokyo with my girls. Amazing city, people and culture. As usual I’m observing through a partial environmental lens, and I notice no rubbish bins. Heaps of rubbish in many of the streets. Apparently they were removed after the 1995 sarin terrorist attacks. A Time Out article in 2018 says the locals carry their rubbish with them until they get home. Maybe the increase in tourists post covid has contributed 😔